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When Rose and the Doctor came down to breakfast the next morning, none of them could keep the smiles off each other's faces. They were both so happy. Jackie and Pete both noticed this, but kept quiet, though they sent each other discreet looks over their cups of coffee. Tony just wondered why everyone had such peculiar looks on their faces.
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Heidi visited that night, extremely curious. Heidi wasn't generally the intrusive type, she worked with the information she got. This time however, she was the one who wanted to ask questions. She had heard about this mysterious Doctor so much, and couldn't wait to meet him. Not to mention that Heidi had never ever seen that sparkle Rose had had in her eyes yesterday. She knew Rose was very, very happy.
She reached the Tyler mansion and reached out to ring the bell. Instead of being greeted by a servant like usual, she was instead greeted by her boss and Rose's father. She smiled shyly and immediately got invited in and embraced by Jackie. She waved to Tony who grinned toothily in return.
"Rose is in her apartment." Jackie informed her with a smile. Heidi thanked her and went up, almost getting lost on the way. As she approached Rose's room, she heard laughter and shouts. She smiled. She hadn't heard Rose laugh in a long time. She knocked on the door tentatively.
Rose was there straightaway, almost as if she had been poised by the door, and swept her friend in to a hug.
"Thank you for coming!" she said grinning.
Heidi smiled at her friend. Rose was dressed simply, in old jeans and a hoodie, her blond hair was tied up in a messy bun and her smile was a mile wide. Her eyes sparkled and she stood in a relaxed posture.
Rose motioned for Heidi to come in and shut the door behind her. Heidi looked around in surprise. She had visited Rose's apartment once before, and it had been bare then, with barely any indication that anyone lived there at all. It had reminded Heidi a bit of a hotel room, with bare walls and simple furniture, barely any personal trinkets or pictures, nothing.
But now the apartment was almost unrecognisable. The kitchen was messy, a bright tablecloth on the table and pictures on the walls. The living room had white painted walls, although the door leading to Rose's bedroom was painted dark blue. The sofa had cushions on it, made out of a special denim type material with the same colour as the door. Photos were pinned up on the corkboard, a vase stood on the coffee table, and a shelf was filled with books, drawings and odd trinkets that looked alien. It looked like a home.
What interested Heidi the most was the blue suited handsome man currently lounging on Rose's sofa with a smudge of flour on his clothes. He looked relaxed and completely at home. He stood up when they made eye contact, a huge grin (matching Rose's) on his face. His hair stood up in every direction, he had huge brown eyes, and he was very skinny and looked to be about thirty five, maybe a little younger. He walked over, confident but not at all intimidating and reached out his hand to shake hers. Heidi noticed that his other hand immediately reached out to hold Rose's.
"Hello" he said, in a cheerful voice. "I'm the Doctor!"
Heidi already felt at ease with this man, and she was generally a very shy person. She shook his hand. "I'm Heidi" she introduced herself. "I work with Rose at Torchwood".
The Doctor grinned. "Yeah, Rose told me a lot about you".
"Are you hungry?" Rose asked. "We made pizza."
"It would have been on the table by now if this one hadn't gotten distracted" The Doctor said playfully.
"Yeah, and it would have been ready an hour ago if this one hadn't started adding jam on his!" Rose retorted, shoving the Doctor playfully. The Doctor simply laughed.
"Point is, it's in the oven and will be ready in five minutes." The Doctor told Heidi.
She was currently marvelling how very much in sync these two were. She loved seeing Rose like this, joking and playful. She barely knew that this side to her existed.
It was going to be a fun evening.
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6 days had passed and the next day would be Rose's first day back to work and the Doctor's first at Torchwood. Rose and Pete had decided that they would tell Torchwood that the Doctor was alien; it would make things a lot easier. The Doctor was fine with this idea, and rather excited about going to work at Torchwood with Rose.
The two of them decided to enjoy their last day. They had had a full day, shopping, painting things in Rose's apartment (it looked like Rose's whole apartment would be TARDIS blue, not just her bedroom door), painting Tony's room to look like the time vortex (They had both needed long bubble baths after that) and simply walking around London. The media couldn't get enough of the two of them and hadn't gone away until Rose threatened them with a restraining order. The gossip magazines and tabloids would come out the next day and Rose supposed that she would be on the front cover again (the notion didn't excite her very much).
When they got to the mansion it was already dark. Rose had told the Doctor that a curfew existed in Pete's world, because of the unknown darkness and that Torchwood members took turns patrolling the night for Daleks. She made a mental note to tell Pete to lift the curfew restrictions first thing tomorrow, as they were unnecessary now.
Although both she and the Doctor were tired, Tony (who was somehow still up) begged and implored his sister to read him a bedtime story and the Doctor said he would go for a short walk around the mansion. He needed to clear his head a bit from all the chaos in the last few days. Rose consented, making him promise to be back in 20 minutes.
So the Doctor grabbed his new coat (it looked exactly like his old one, Candice had picked it out for him) and went outside. The mansion was fairly close to the city centre, but instead he walked towards the park and wooded areas, relishing the quiet. After walking for about ten minutes, he suddenly realised he was lost. He was shocked. He was a Time Lord, he had superior senses, and he never got lost. Maybe being in such a domestic situation with Rose had made him more human. He sighed. Maybe it was the parallel universe. He wasn't from here, and there seemed to be differences too-yes that would explain his sudden loss of direction. He turned left, trying to trace his path back to the mansion, but ended up only more lost.
He groaned in agitation, wishing he had taken the mobile Rose had brought him two days ago. He turned around and was startled by approaching headlights. He squinted. He couldn't see the vehicle very well, all he could tell was that the car was very big. A range rover or something like that. He expected the car to just drive by, but instead it stooped and three people got out.
One of them had a calm and business-like look on his face and carried something that looked suspiciously like a probe or a scanner. The second male had a slight smirk on his face, with short, spiky brown hair. He carried a small gun in his belt and a larger one which looked like a stunner in the other. The last person who stepped out was a woman in her in her mid or late twenties. She was tall and slender, with long black hair tied back in a ponytail and eyes framed with dark makeup. She wasn't carrying anything, although the Doctor decided a handbag would most definitely suit her. The three strangers looked at him for a second, sizing him up. The Doctor had no idea who they were, but decided that his normal, cheerful approach was best. He grinned at them.
"Hello!" he said brightly. "Listen I am a wee bit lost, in the wrong universe so to speak. A little out of my depth. "
The calm looking man frowned. "It's past curfew mate. You shouldn't be out here."
"Yeah, well like I said I'm lost…"
The other man walked forward. "Ed, I think he might be one of them. She warned us that they might try to blend in."
"He looks human" the woman objected, a slight drawl in her voice.
The spiky haired man rolled his eyes. "Liv, you've seen how many aliens? She told us they sometimes look like humans!"
"Calm down Max!" Ed said. He turned to the Doctor. "This is protocol" he told him and slowly scanned him. Judging from the way his eyes widened, the Doctor supposed the scanner was identifying him as non- human. He sighed slightly.
"I knew it!" Max barked out when he saw the results of the scan. "That's it, you're coming with us!" Before the Doctor had time to protest, Max had grabbed him and twisted his arms, so that the Doctor was pressed face first again the cool, black surface of the car. "Don't try anything" Max snarled and shoved him into the car. "You're coming with us to Torchwood."
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